# Gitcoin

> Gitcoin is a VC fund in Boulder backing Blockchain and SMS. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gitcoin/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/getgitcoin
- Website: https://gitcoin.co/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetGitcoin/

Gitcoin is a platform to enable open source developers to monetize their work when it is used.Gitcoin was borne of the community in Boulder, Colorado's thriving tech scene. One of the most amazing things about the Boulder community is the #givefirst mantra. The founding team has built their careers off of advice, mentorship, andrelationships in the local tech community.Gitcoin is built upon the Ethereum network, and the solidity smart contract programming language. Ethereum provides opportunities to align incentives across actors in the ecosystem. By programming rights of stakeholders directly into smart contracts, actors are incentivized to provide value, and edge cases are handled _without_ having to involve legacy legal enforcement mechanisms.The founder of Gitcoin, Kevin Owocki, has experience as an organizer of Boulder Startup Week, Ignite Boulder, StartupCTO.io, Boulder Blockchain Meetup, and the open-source projects by trader, adblock-to-bitcoin, YouveGotETH, and ColoradoCoin. The stronger the community is, the more successful open source projects are. The stronger open source projects are, the stronger the community is.Gitcoin is a project that combines the #givefirst mantra of the Boulder community with capitalistic incentives to write great software. By enabling Repo Maintainers, developers, and financiers to find one another, Gitcoin pushes open-source software forward.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Gitcoin. Shizune tracks 7 team members at Gitcoin. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/gitcoin?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $14k–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 2 | 33% |
| SMS | 1 | 17% |
| Big Data | 1 | 17% |
| Software | 1 | 17% |
| Analytics | 1 | 17% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Grant | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cambodia | 1 | 17% |
| Singapore | 1 | 17% |
| Philippines | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kevin Owocki | CEO / Chief Roboticist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-owocki |
| Kyle Weiss | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyle-weiss |
| Annika Lewis | Grants Program Lead | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/annika-lewis-0d20 |
| Connor O'Day | Revenue Lead | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connor-o-day-2be2 |
| Gloria Kimbwala | Customer Success Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gloria-kimbwala |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pheasant Network | Pheasant Network uses intent-based bridging and an innovative cross-chain swap protocol to connect 30+ blockchain networks quickly and efficiently. |  | Grant | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| CirroLytix | Social Listening, Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Visualization for Social Impact ApplicationsOur mission is to help governments, non-profits, researchers, international and local organizations succeed at addressing collective social problems around the world by harnessing the full power of their data. Our ultimate contributionto society is in enabling social impact organizations make positive data-driven change to the lives they seek to uplift. Our clients and partners span many social impact fields, including public health, democracy, elections, fake news, human rights, education, justice reform, peacebuilding, urban planning and agriculture. | $14K | Seed | Dec 05, 2022 |  |
| Somleng | Somleng is an open-source cloud communications platform, similar to Twilio. It's made up of several open source applications which, when used together, provide the necessary functionality and APIs to build powerful voice and SMS applications. The goal of Somleng is to break down the economic and accessibility barriers to building telephonyapplications. | $19.1K | Seed | Dec 05, 2022 |  |
| DAOHQ | DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 25, 2022 |  |
| DAOHQ | DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 25, 2022 |  |
| Nomad | Nomad is a novel approach to blockchain interoperability that leverages an optimistic mechanism to increase the security of cross-chain communication. | $22.4M | Seed | Apr 12, 2022 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bybit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bybit) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GSR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsr) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Stealth Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stealth-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Gitcoin invest in?

Gitcoin invests primarily in Blockchain, SMS and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Cambodia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Gitcoin's check size?

Gitcoin typically joins rounds of $14k–$22M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gitcoin participates in.

### How do I contact Gitcoin?

Public channels for Gitcoin include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Gitcoin?

The team at Gitcoin includes Kevin Owocki (CEO / Chief Roboticist), Kyle Weiss (Chief Operating Officer) and Annika Lewis (Grants Program Lead), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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